Spirit Leaves: Beyond the Sliding Doors
It is winter, and a fringe of pinkish white light clings to night's hem. I gaze upward through sliding doors at a dew-encrusted moon and feel a hollow aloneness, until a gentle moan rises...
Evolutionary Pagan: Keepers of the Taboo
Recently the city of Minneapolis enacted a new ordinance for massage licensure. It is clear, based on the language, that the intention is to target and eliminate prostitutes posing as therapists. While I...
Recipe: Apple Bread
A Gluten-free, Dairy-free Whole Food Recipe
If you follow a gluten-free diet, you know the feeling of longing for a moist piece of bread. This apple bread will make you smile as you bite...
Yoga for YOU: Tree Pose
This month's pose, Vrksasana (translation Tree Pose), builds stability, grace and balance. As with all postures, the more you practice a pose the more it comes with ease; the more intentionality you give to...
From the Heart: Masters in our Midst
As commuters hustled through the Washington, D.C., metro station on a cold winter morning, a musician stood next to a wall playing his violin, the case at his feet open for tips. He played...
From the Editor: A Tribute to Horst and Philip
This month, I couldn't help but reflect upon the recent passing of two inspiring men: Horst Rechelbacher, 72, founder of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients; and Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, writer, director and Academy Award-winning...
Star Wisdom: A Sense of Urgency
March comes in like a lamb and leaves like a lion. With the Sun in dreamy Pisces through the 20th, life feels more like a reality show than like reality. A sense of urgency...
Recipe: Southern-Style Collards with Bacon
A Gluten-free, Dairy-free Whole Food Recipe
NOT ONLY ARE greens nutrient dense, but they are also an excellent source of calcium. The bacon provides fat which helps the body absorb nutrients. Buy bacon from pastured...
From the Heart: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
A student told her spiritual teacher that she was suffering under "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," quoting Shakespeare's famous verse from Hamlet. The teacher looked her piercingly in the eyes and asked,...
Evolutionary Pagan: Finding the Lesson
Many pagan groups or teaching covens consist of three levels. While the timing is not always exactly the same with every coven or every student, after a year and a day an initiation can be...
Yoga for YOU: Chair Pose
This month's pose, Utkatasana (ooot-kah-tah-sana) or Chair Pose, demands that our legs and booty be actively engaged. Chair pose challenges the body to become stronger. While holding the pose, we can feel a muscle...
From the Editor: Following Your Bliss
I HAD A LOVELY CHAT recently with intuitive and healer Nadine Penny, a regular monthly Edge columnist who shares her "Words of Wisdom" each month in print and her "Spirited Kidz" column each month...
February horoscope: Mercury Retrograde prompts Insights
MERCURY IS RETROGRADE from February 6 through the end of the month. On the surface, this phenomenon brings communication mix-ups, technical difficulties, and delays. But by injecting discontinuity into the mental landscape, Mercury retrograde...
Recipe: Perfect Pot Roast
A Gluten-free, Dairy-free Whole Food Recipe
THERE ARE MANY RECIPES for a pot roast, but I chose this one based on its simplicity of ingredients and its adaptability to cooking methods, especially the...
Evolutionary Pagan: Reinventing the Wheel
THE PAGAN WHEEL of the year is comprised of eight Sabbats or holidays. They are the two solstices, the two equinoxes and the four points or cross-quarters in-between. While the symbology contained within each...
Yoga for YOU: Dancer Pose
THIS MONTH'S POSE, Natarajasana ("I am love") or Dancer Pose, is a way for your body to develop balance while opening your heart. A breakthrough moment on my mat was when I began to...
Spirit Leaves: Eagle, Book and Medicine Man
A PUFF OF WHITE MIST emanates from a vent off my fourth-floor balcony, adding to the ghostly feeling of midwinter. Below me, the icy river wears a soft blanket of new snow. The sun opened...
